Visualization cleanup: colorbar and plot config refinements

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: 2 people

autoarray/config/visualize/general.yaml

@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ colorbar:
   fraction: 0.047          # Fraction of original axes to use for the colorbar.
   pad: 0.01                # Padding between colorbar and axes.
   labelrotation: 90        # Rotation of colorbar tick labels in degrees.
-  labelsize: 18            # Font size of colorbar tick labels for single-panel figures.
-  labelsize_subplot: 18    # Font size of colorbar tick labels for subplot panels.
+  labelsize: 16            # Font size of colorbar tick labels for single-panel figures.
+  labelsize_subplot: 16    # Font size of colorbar tick labels for subplot panels.
 mat_plot:
   figure:
     figsize: (7, 7)                     # Default figure size. Override via aplt.Figure(figsize=(...)).

autoarray/plot/utils.py

@@ -618,8 +618,8 @@ def _apply_colorbar(
         Override the unit string on the middle tick.  Pass ``""`` for unitless panels.
         ``None`` reads the unit from config.
     is_subplot
-        When ``True`` uses ``labelsize_subplot`` from config (default 18) instead of
-        the single-figure ``labelsize`` (default 18).
+        When ``True`` uses ``labelsize_subplot`` from config (default 16) instead of
+        the single-figure ``labelsize`` (default 16).
     """
     tick_values = _colorbar_tick_values(getattr(mappable, "norm", None))
 
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ def _apply_colorbar(
         ticks=tick_values,
     )
     labelsize_key = "labelsize_subplot" if is_subplot else "labelsize"
-    labelsize = float(_conf_colorbar(labelsize_key, 18))
+    labelsize = float(_conf_colorbar(labelsize_key, 16))
     labelrotation = float(_conf_colorbar("labelrotation", 90))
     if tick_values is not None:
         cb.ax.set_yticklabels(